We’re back with our 2023 Christmas special! Another AFTN Soccer Show packed full of Vancouver Whitecaps, Major League Soccer, and Canadian soccer chat, but this time with added festive fun and games! It'll all get a bit messy or maybe it's just a cheese dream.
The Whitecaps' 2024 schedule dropped this week and forget Santa Claus, it's Lionel Messi that's coming to town in May. Barring injury, Christmas has come early for 'Caps fans who want to spend their cash gifts on some football fun. We delve into the good and the bad aspects of the schedule, chat about the Messi circus, and look at the two latest Whitecaps additions - draft picks Eliot Goldthorp and Nicolas Fleuriau Chateau.
Our feature interview this episode is a player that will be well known to Whitecaps, TFC, Pacific FC, and Vancouver FC fans, Canadian defender Kadin Chung. We chat with Kadin about the highs and lows of his career so far, coming to play for his new hometown team, and look ahead at what's to come. Plus we find out what Christmas is like with the Chung family and with his teammate Callum Irving's family.
We also look at the US Soccer Federation standing up to MLS in the US Open Cup row, chat with Canadian Players of the Year Jesse Fleming and Stephen Eustáquio about their busy year and Christmas plans, find out if Canadian women's national team head coach Bev Priestman is able to get a break this Christmas, whether Whitecaps midfielder Ali Ahmed fancies a chocolate digestive, and just what is Tristan Blackmon's favourite jam?
Harjeet Johal joins us for the fun and chat and play 20 Questions, plus we continue AFTN's 2023 Festive Fifteen with numbers 6 to 4.
Here’s the rundown for the main segments from the episode:
01.45: Intro - getting ready for Christmas aka buying too much cheese
11.55: A Callum Irving Family Christmas
14.36: Messi coming to town as MLS schedule drops
36.45: Anyone Fancy A Chocolate Digestive - Ali Ahmed
38.11: 20 Questions - Whitecaps edition
44.26: Festive Fifteen #6
48.29: Whitecaps add two intriguing draft picks
59.35: USSF stand up to MLS in US Open Cup row
74.46: Tristan Blackmon's Favourite Jam
76.45: 20 Questions - CPL edition
86.01: Festive Fifteen #5
90.25: Kadin Chung interview and discussion
121.40: A Kadin Chung Family Christmas
123.45: Festive Fifteen #4
129.00: Jessie Fleming and Stephen Eustáquio on a busy year and Christmas plans
135.55: 20 Questions - Canadian national team edition
144.40: Bev Priestman's Christmas plans
146.00: Wavelength - Armchair Loyal - All I Want For Christmas Is A Dukla Prague Away Kit
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Episode 473 - The AFTN Soccer Show (Turbulent Times)
Episode 472 - The AFTN Soccer Show (Honey I'm Home)
Episode 471 - The AFTN Soccer Show (Everything's Going To Be Alright Alright Alright)
Episode 470 - The AFTN Soccer Show (Burning Bright with special guest Adam Day)
Episode 469 - The AFTN Soccer Show (Turning Up The Heat with guests Florian Jungwirth, Ryan Gauld, and Javain Brown)
Episode 468 - The AFTN Soccer Show (Tartan Special with special guests Ryan Gauld, Maxime Crepeau, and Marc Dos Santos)
Episode 467 - The AFTN Soccer Show (Going For Gauld)
Episode 466 - The AFTN Soccer Show (Home Is Wherever I'm With You)
Episode 465 - The AFTN Soccer Show (Homeward Bound with special guests Ollie Bassett and Matteo Polisi)
Episode 464 - The AFTN Soccer Show (Not Beans Again)
Episode 463 - The AFTN Soccer Show (Bella Bella)
Episode 462 - The AFTN Soccer Show (Lapses and Collapses - Dallas v Whitecaps, Ali Adnan leaves, Chris Armas sacking, MLS and CPL round-ups)
Episode 461 - The AFTN Soccer Show (Scorchio! - Whitecaps draw, Ryan Gauld rumours, CPL kicks off, Alan Koch interview)
Episode 460 - The AFTN Soccer Show (There's Danger On The Way)
Episode 459 - The AFTN Soccer Show (The Battle Of Utah - RSL v Vancouver Preview Show)
Episode 458 - The AFTN Soccer Show (A Feast Of Football with special guest Axel Schuster)
Episode 457 - The AFTN Soccer Show (All The World Is A Stage - Euro 2020 preview and Canada's World Cup qualifiers)
Episode 456 - The AFTN Soccer Show (International Rescue - Whitecaps make moves, Canada eye the octagon, the art of the football song with Neil Grant)
Episode 455 - The AFTN Soccer Show (Dog Eat Dog with Marc Dos Santos and John Herdman)
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